The Nasarawa state House of Assembly Wednesday passed a supplementary budget of N4.67billion for the 2019 fiscal year. The Speaker of the house, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, announced the passage of the budget after a motion […]
Bauchi state Commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning, Dr Aminu Gamawa, has said the state government will soon conclude its preparations on the 2020 budget. Gamawa was speaking when he featured in a phone-in […]
The Vice-Chancellor of Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun state, Professor Jeremiah Oludele Ojediran has condemned the N48billion allocation to education in the 2020 appropriation bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly. The V-C described […]
#Budget2020 allocations for some MDAs announced by President Muhammadu Buhari Works & Housing – N262bn Transportation – N123bn UBEC – N112bn Defence – N100bn Agriculture – N83 bn Water – N82bn Niger Delta – N81bn […]
The Presidency has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari will present 2020 budget next week. This is after it gave reasons Buhari coukdn’t keep to his administration’s promise to present the 2020 budget to the National […]
The recent appointment of Hon Muktar Aliyu Betara as the chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the House of Representatives has clearly demonstrated his humility, diligence, hard work and honesty. His appointment to that position […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon Femi Gbajabiamila has told the presidency that the house would be expecting the 2020 budget in September, with a view to having same passed by January 2020. According […]
The Federal Government has released one billion naira to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to cover the country’s participation at the 2019 AFCON in Egypt as well as pay up the outstanding entitlements of both […]
The relatively stable foreign exchange (forex) and seemingly benign inflation rate will come under test as the Federal Government (FG) will begging to implement the 2019 budget and pay the new minimum wage, beginning with […]
Connected Development (CODE), a non-governmental organisation has organised a one day training workshop for Borno state chapter of champions with the support of Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) to strengthen the capacity of the participants […]
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday signed the 2019 Appropriation Bill into law, and said the ‘padded’ sum into the budget by the National Assembly would make implementation challenging. . Speaking at the signing of the estimates […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has just signed the 2019 appropriation bill into law, signalling the beginning of the implementation of the 2019 fiscal calendar. The president had earlier proposed a budget of N8.83 trillion to the […]
Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and other senior members of the National Assembly are about now at the presidential villa for the signing of 2019 budget into law by […]
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said it remitted to the federation account the sum of N1.26 trillion as against the N1.22 trillion projected in the 2018 budget. According to the state run oil corporation, it […]
Since the return of democratic governance about twenty years ago, the problem of delays in yearly budget passage has been a recurring decimal, regardless of the party in power, with attendant negative effects. This has […]
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the Fund’s administrative and capital budgets for financial year (FY) 2020, beginning May 1, 2019. It board also took note of indicative budgets for […]
The Senate may in plenary on Wednesday pass for third reading , the N8.83 trillion 2019 Appropriation Bill presented to the joint sitting of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on the 19th of […]
The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani has presented a draft budget of N41,600,274,568 covering capital, overhead and personnel appropriation for 2019 before the Senate and House of Representatives committees on Niger […]
Despite having 2019 budget still begging for attention after it was submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Senate has suspended its rules by evoking order 79 to give the new Minimum Wage (amendments) Bill an […]
Aside Aidoko/ Alfa’s legal tango over Kogi East Senatorial seat, other issues that may be addressed frontally by the Senate on resumption today and by extension, the House of Representatives this week are the orgies […]
The Presidency has confirmed the receipt of the 2018 Appropriation Bill from the National Assembly. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate),Ita Enang, confirmed the development to State House Correspondents […]
Following last week’s ultimatum on MDAs by the Senate, EZREL TABIOWO, identifies major concerns responsible for the delay of the 2018 appropriation bill before both chambers of the National Assembly. Low budget implementation Clearly disappointed […]
In the last six months, there have been an increase in clashes between farming communities and herdsmen culminating in the killing of 73 tiv famers. This itself does not include the sacking of farming communities […]
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